Dr Maria N Ivanova

I joined the Department of Politics as a Lecturer in Economics in September 2013. Previously, I taught at New York University (2005-11) and the University of Kassel, Germany (2011-13). I hold degrees in Politics and Economics from Sofia University and the University of Bonn. 

Teaching

Spring 2019

No teaching (dedicated research time)

2019-20

Topics in International Economics, 2nd year undergraduate module

Boom and Bust: Economic Crises in Theory and History, 3rd year undergraduate module

Global Capitalism: Theory and History, postgraduate module

The United States in the World Economy, postgraduate module

Past Teaching

Introduction to Economics, 1st year UG; Introduction to Political Economy, 1st year UG; International Trade, 2nd year UG; International Monetary Economics, 2nd year UG; International Political Economy, 3rd year UG; International Political Economy, MA module.

Areas of supervision

• International Trade and International Monetary Economics (in particular, the global imbalances, global reserves accumulation, the role of the US dollar as key international currency)
• Political Economy of the United States (economic history, housing, consumerism, inequality, labor market, monetary policy and the Federal Reserve)
• Theories of money and finance (in particular, Marx, Keynes, Minsky, Post Keynesian theories of money and finance)
• Financial crises

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

Ivanova, Maria N. 2014. ‘Not Just Another Crisis: How and Why the Great Recession Was Different'. In: Richard Westra; Robert Albritton and Dennis Badeen, eds. The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity. London: Routledge, pp. 171-183. ISBN 978-0415722841

Ivanova, Maria N. 2013. 'The Crisis of Home-Centered Consumer Capitalism in the United States’. In: Alan Cafruny and Herman Schwartz, eds. Exploring the Global Financial Crisis: Yearbook of International Political Economy. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. ISBN 978-1588268600

Article

Ivanova, Maria N. 2020. Marx’s Theory of Money: A Reappraisal in the Light of Unconventional Monetary Policy. Review of Radical Political Economics, 52(1), pp. 137-151. ISSN 0486-6134

Ivanova, Maria N. 2019. Inequality, Financialization, and the US Current Account Deficit. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(4), pp. 707-724. ISSN 0960-6491

Ivanova, Maria N. 2018. On the Peculiarity of Class Reproduction in the Society of Exchange and the Popular Subject of Rising Inequality in the United States. Capital & Class, 42(1), pp. 23-41. ISSN 0309-8168

Research Interests

Dr Maria N Ivanova's research interests include social theory and political economy, theories of money and finance, crisis theories, international and comparative political economy, political economy of the United States (social transformation and economic history, housing, consumerism, the international role of the US Dollar, the global imbalances), history of economic thought and intellectual history (Marx, Veblen, Mach, Hayek, Keynes, Minsky, Post Keynesian theories of money and finance).